Twilight put Spike to bed and went for her balcony. Not ready to sleep yet, she decided to use her telescope for a while and look at the constellations. She looked at Orion, and the big dipper, and admired Luna's night.
The night Princess took great pride in her work, lighting up each constellation beautifully. She wanted more than anything to win the love and affection of her subjects back, and she didn't disappoint.
Twilight turned her telescope in the direction of The White Owl nebula, when she noticed something odd "what is that?" she asked herself, than she ran to get an astronomy book
May 31th 2554
Unknown 08:15 hours
"uuugh, What happened jax…. Wait, WHY AM I A HORSE!?" Said joseph. "Correction you have wings so therefore you're a Pegasus not a horse. Wait I thought pegasi where a myth." "I DON'T CARE!" "As for what happened it appears that one of the asteroids hit the engines, and when we went into slipspace the engines malfunctioned creating a sort of slipspace inside of slipspace
"Is that even possible jax?" "Well it appears that it is possible Joseph." "Where are we?" He began to walk toward the observation window in the front of the bridge. The light from space filled the semi-dark bridge room.
"Our Location is unknown…We are not in any known UNSC or Covenant space…I can't pinpoint our location due to our sensor array damage…I'm afraid to say we are lost and on our own."
"Great…" joseph groaned and laid his head against the reinforced glass. "…jax can you turn the lights back on?"
"I'm going to do a complete reboot of the ships internal and external systems, which should do the trick." jax replied intelligently.
"Do it." the Spartan commanded simply, continuing to look out the window into the black canvas of space.
Flickering away from the hologram pad, jax vanished. Joseph heard the ships systems power down, readying for a complete restart, and the frigate grew deathly quiet. For moments joseph stood leaning against the glass making no noise, he was truly alone somewhere in space.
A flash of light lit up bridge, the lights were functional again. The many computer terminals flickered back to life, showing diagnostics of the ships systems. Joseph moved back to the metal cylinder where the silver hologram of jax flashed back into view.
"Our undamaged systems are functioning again joseph…" The AI paused and placed his transparent hand against his head. "…Port side cameras are picking up something….I'm going to rotate the ship to the left so it's in view."
Joseph nodded, took a seat in the vacant captain's chair, and felt the ships engines turn on. The Harmony slowly began to rotate to the left, bringing the object into view of the observation window. A great blue and green orb rolled across the observation window, a planet.
"It seems we may have lucked out Spartan, I think we may have found a new planet." The AI droned gleefully.
White clouds rolled across the surface of the planet. This new world seemed much like earth with oceans and great land masses. But something was different about this strange new world. There were no bright lights of civilization, no dark pools of water where pollution had corrupted the water, and no great grey cities visible from space. This world was clean and fresh, no space age technology.
"Jax, Check for any life or tech." the Spartan said cautiously.
"Sensor array damaged joseph, I'm afraid I can't do that."
The Spartan leaned back in the captain's chair, frustrated at their situation. He looked out through the window at this new world in front of them, watching its rotation slowly and their frigate stood in orbit. It was a beautiful world, green and lush, nothing like joseph had seen before. Rubbing his new hoof through his red mane he groaned and attempted to decide what to do. Jax simply stood with his hands folded in front of him looking at joseph for direction. The bridge grew deathly silent once again.
"Joseph?" the AI whispered silently, waiting for a command.
"Jax…Begin to check the ships inventory of supplies and prep a pelican for decent and show the ships status I want to make sure we are battle ready." Said joseph as he walked to a computer terminal
"Yes sir"
Hull Status – Holding at 100%
Navigation System – Offline: No contact with sensor array
Communication Systems – Offline: No contact with communication array
Emergency Systems – Online at 100%.Warning: all Life boats are jettisoned
Weapons Systems – Online at 100% - Archer-Pods: online.
Inter-Ship Systems – Functioning at 100%
Reactor- functioning at 100%
Engine Systems – offline
Slipspace drive-offline
"May I inquire to where you are going commander?"
"I'm going to go get dressed." He replied walking out of the bridge.
Jax chuckled and flashed away from the pedestal
